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Alert: New Teardrop Attack
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Alert: New Teardrop Attack

  • To: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
  • Subject: Alert: New Teardrop Attack
  • From: Russ <Russ.CooperRC.ON.CA>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:16:34 -0500
  • Reply-To: Russ <Russ.CooperRC.ON.CA>
  • Sender: Windows NT BugTraq Mailing List <NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM>
Folks,

I have several well placed sources reporting a new teardrop-style attack
that operates seemingly on a broadcast basis. Its very wide scale and
began, seemingly, today. A report to NTSecurityiss.net indicated that
NT BSODs, Win95 GPFs, and Linux crashes. This is as yet unconfirmed
(read: reproducible) because so far nobody has found a source for the
attack (that is, the source program). Investigations continue large
scale.

This message is to serve as both a warning, and a request. If you have
any sniffer traces of attacks causing the above mentioned effects and
can share them with me, please contact me directly at
Russ.Cooperrc.on.ca. I will share them with several well placed
security resources (read: not just Microsoft) and see if we can figure
out what's happening.

Be aware that this is very wide-spread primarily targeting .gov and .edu
networks, but certainly not restricted to such.

More details as we get them.

Cheers,
Russ Cooper
R.C. Consulting, Inc. - NT/Internet Security